Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Pregnant Beholder

January 12, 2008

You know how it goes. You have a prenatal appointment, they do an ultrasound, they let you see your baby, and you’re just filled – suffused – with the joy of seeing your beautiful baby boy right there on the screen, every healthy – healthy! – bouncing inch of him, little legs bending and kicking (oooh, my goodness, you have a little active one! says the radiologist), little hand shoved in little mouth, and you think, that’s my baby, that’s my beautiful baby.

And the radiologist says, I just need to get a look face-on, and pushes and prods at your belly with the ultrasound stick, and then exclaims, oh, look, there’s the little face!

Congratulations on the baby boy! I honestly thought you’d have another girl. This is so awesome. Love those ultrasound pictures. I’m suffering the baby blues, once again. Someday it will happen….I hope….

Oh yes, we had that a month or three (gosh, that long already?) ago. And relatives kept wanting to see the latest ultrasounds, and I felt obliged to tell them that it looked like skeletor and not to get so excited. I think the great grandparents were expecting harry potter style full on smiling pictures, waving back at them…But yes, my baby is still the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, even if I am afraid that its first words will be “I am your father, Luke”

Hey I have that same photo!! Our last scan was done just over a week ago, he is so big now all you can see is bits of him in each screen shot! But yours is still small and cute, they always look cuter from the side on.

I seriously did not even CARE what the kid looked like once I heard the ultrasound tech say a whole list of things such as, “Fully fused brain stem. Healthy four-chambered heart. Normal brain development,” etc. while she was ruthlessly smashing my belly with her wand.

Ha ha ha…I remember those alien invasion moments. Congratulations. Hopefully you won’t have to have conversations with Wonderbaby any time soon about how he got in there. Or how he’ll get out. Though perhaps you could come up with some creatively euphamistic use of your PANTS pocket to illustrate.

don’t you just love ultra=sound pics.and to know that jack skelington is going to be a real live baby in months is so cool…stinkerbell had to have biophysical profiles done every two weeks to monitor her growth and even though i couldn’t afford any pics to keep it was still awesome to see her growing and moving and just being …..LAVANDULA